I was wondering, how well are all the different certifications recognized by companies?

I know there's many different certifications, but lets include primarily penetration testing, security, and the most well known certifications.

I'd like to hear your list of top 10 most recognized certifications, so I can perhaps gain some knowledge of which I should pursue seen from a pure HR / company view and not a personal view of what I want to learn.

I would actually put GSEC/GCIH/GCFA/GCIA as number 5 since they are all ISO certified and then GPEN as number 6. Then again, you might put GSEC and GCIH along with GSLC, GSE, GISF and GCED ahead of GCFA and GCIA based on being in the DoD 8570 regs.

I thought I'd post some information about a website that is pretty useful for tracking salary and trends related to demand/certification, it's UK based but lists average salary for certifications by region and more: http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/

Here's a link for the CEH, if you scroll down you'll see the demand trend:

As far as HR requirements go for penetration testing, I'd say that the CEH is becoming more popular and recognised in the UK and surprisingly OSCP too. However, most UK based companies almost always request Tiger/CREST/CHECK certifications for pentesting.